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Gregory Huffman BUENAS yan Hafa Adai! As 2023 comes to a close, and we look toward the New Year, I would like to take a moment to thank our island community for your warm hospitality, support and patriotism. Since taking command of Joint Region Marianas in June, my wife Judy and I have had the plea…

IN his short story titled “The Beheading of the Heads,” the late, great Italian writer Italo Calvino recounted a visit to the capital of an unnamed country where the heads of government served a fixed term, at the end of which they were publicly beheaded. Why? Because otherwise, “everybody would wa…

THE TRUTH of the matter is scatterbrain efforts by Government Officials & Private Activists still continue, as there is NO continuity between these two all-important variables with the Governor when it comes to working as a Team WITH the Governor to achieve the SAME goal of a thriving economy. …

Christopher A. Concepcion ON Jan. 13, 2024, the first ever Rota Marathon will be staged, drawing athletes and media attention to this stunning gem of an island in the Marianas archipelago. The idea for a Rota Marathon took root at the Marianas Visitors Authority just a few months ago, where my prop…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is every politician should strive to MAKE-SURE that she/he does some things that their constituents can see, feel for themselves or family or touch something like a structure like Rep. Thomas John Dela Cruz Manglona and his family did for Precinct 5 for Ch…

HISTORIANS and political scientists are growing more comfortable using the term Cold War Two when describing the international tension between China and the United States.  The first Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union from about 1945 through 1991 when the Soviet Union colla…

THIS point has been made many times before by many other commentators all over the world, but voters need to be reminded of it constantly: We won’t just hire anyone to pull out a broken tooth, treat an illness or fix our car. We will go to a reputable expert: a dentist, a doctor, a mechanic. And ye…

THE TRUTH of the matter is I believe the Senate has leaped before they looked, which is a big no-no! We learn in our formative years to “look before you leap” and yet the Senate seems to have jumped off the EVS-TAP cliff without doing their homework (KNOWING it will work). Based on what I have read…

THE TRUTH of the matter is our Governor has “chosen wisely” for us and WE-as-a-People, need to get on board and start moving forward as “one people headed in the same direction” and stop figuratively looking in the rearview mirror at China. We don’t hear Kilili promoting this EVS-TAP stuff because …

Rosemarie D. Embile ONLINE scams have become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent in the digital age, exploiting various avenues such as romance and investments. The infamous Simon Leviev romance scam shed light on the vulnerabilities in online relationships, but the deception extends to other …